Virginia Film Festival

DWELLING: Experimental Short Essay Films

There is a vein of haunted history running through each of these intensely experimental films, allowing…

Short Documentary Films

The Art of the Moving Creature 2014. USA. 17 min. Director: Jessica Burnam “The Art of…

Mr. Turner

In the last quarter century of life for the eccentric, vulnerable, and sometimes uncouth British painter,…

Red Army

Fueled by the height of Cold War passions, hockey served as a form of propaganda in…

Mommy

A glamorously trashy middle-aged widow finds herself burdened with the full-time custody of her rambunctious 15-year-old…

She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry

Artfully combining dramatizations, interviews, and archival imagery, the film recounts the stories of women fighting on…

Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter

A depressed outsider who doesn’t fit in at her office job in Japan, Kumiko struggles to…

Hellion

Under the loose supervision of his depressed father Hollis, 13-year-old Jacob Wilson has begun to raise…

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

In the Iranian ghost-town Bad City, a place that reeks of death and loneliness from the…

Alive Inside

Winner of the 2014 Sundance Documentary Audience Award, this film chronicles the astonishing journey of individuals…

Animals

Jude (Dastmalchian) and Bobbie (Shaw) try to maintain an outward appearance of normalcy, disguising their homelessness…

An Afternoon with Rita Dove & Julian Bond

Focusing on these two celebrated figures, director Eduardo Montes-Bradley creates comprehensive biographical sketches, steeped in historical…

All Fall Down

In Baltimore 1972, a senseless murder rocked the Selhorst family, leaving thirteen children without a father.…